[Asterisk-Users] Adit 600 as VoIP router (MGCP) and Asterisk

[Daniel Nyström]

The thing about PCI-cards were just a way to illustrate how I'm thinking, not a sollution. I'm sorry for the confusion i brought.
It's already clear that an Adit 600 will work as an Channel Bank.
The problem was just that, either we use on E1 to the Adit, but there might be some issues with that, since we're also using one PRI E1 to the telco.
Then we´re going to use an Ethernet connection to the Adit, and configure it as an MG with MGCP.

That's why I was wondering if there are any people in the list which have used Asterisk with Adit (or other channel banks) controlled by MGCP.
There are also almost no documentation regarding Asterisk and MGCP. If I get this to work, I might contribute to that part on the Wiki.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Critchfield" <critch at basesys.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Adit 600 as VoIP router (MGCP) and Asterisk


> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:06 +0100, Daniel Nyström wrote:
> > Got at suggestion from CarrierAccess to use the Adit 600 as an VoIP
> > router using MGCP IP protocol, instead of controlling it through an
> > E1.
> > Have anyone tried this configuration? How does MGCP works? I've tried
> > to search for it on Google, but I only find the protocol specification
> > for it.
> > Is Asterisk fully capable of this? I can't find any documentatin
> > covering the use of MGCP in Asterisk.
> > My mission is still to transform one E1 (30ch) from the telco, into 30
> > FXS channels, all via Asterisk. :)
> > 
> > Do anyone have a successful story about using MGCP with Asterisk?
> > 
> > Do I still have the full power of Asterisk even when using MGCP? I
> > would like it to be, like if I were using FXS PCI-cards localy in the
> > server. :)
> 
> 30 channels of FXS on PCI cards currently would require 8 cards. Not
> financially a good idea not to mention that if you stick to the 2 cards
> per machine that you would be up to 4 machines just for those 30 ports. 
> 
> I don't know what the MGCP card costs for the ADIT. Compare it to the
> cost of 1 or 2 T1 ports via Digium cards.  
> -- 
> Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>
> 
> 
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